History & Theory
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Introducing Machiavelli: A Graphic Guide
$12.00 Read moreNicol Machiavelli’s The Prince remains controversial in its electrifying frankness as a practical guide to power. Is it a how-to manual for dictators, or a subtle analysis of successful government? I
- Series: Introducing (Icon Books)
- Author: Curry, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 02 2011
- ISBN10: 1848311753
- Language: English
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How Propaganda Works
$20.95 Add to cartHow propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attention
Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to- Author: Stanley, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: December 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0691173427
- Language: English
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The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (and a Radical Plan to Rebuild It)
$29.95 Add to cartFinance serves the rich and powerful. We need to democratize it.
Why is democracy so broken and how might it be fixed? In The Master’s Tools, award-winning author Michael A. McCarthy argues the answer- Author: McCarthy, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1788730666
- Language: English
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The Annals & The Histories
$21.00 Add to cartCornelius Tacitus brilliantly chronicles the moral decline and rampant civil unrest in the Roman Empire in a period when the earliest foundations of modern Europe were being laid. The Annals commence … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tacitus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: April 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0812966996
- Language: English
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The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People
$30.99 Add to cart“This book mounts perhaps the most impressive argument ever made that there exists a viable and desirable alternative to the continued reliance on war.” –The New York Times
At times of global crisis- Author: Schell, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 433
- Publish Date: July 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0805044574
- Language: English
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You Can’t Please All: Memoirs 1980-2024
$44.95 Read moreA new memoir from renowned political activist and author of Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties
The revolutionary upsurge of 1968-1975 jump-hopped continents with ease but finally p- Author: Ali, Tariq
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1804290904
- Language: English
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Authoritarianism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAuthoritarianism is one of the buzzwords of our age. But what is it exactly? This Very Short Introduction provides a comprehensive overview of the world of authoritarian regimes, including military, s… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Loxton, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0192872699
- Language: English
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The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life
$37.00 Add to cartA sweeping history of the rise of personal choice in the modern world and how it became equated with freedom
Choice touches virtually every aspect of our lives, from what to buy and where to live to w- Author: Rosenfeld, Sophia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0691164711
- Language: English
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Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win
$12.95 Add to cartClara Zetkin’s report and resolution on fascism at the June 1923 enlarged plenum of the Communist International’s Executive Committee.
- Author: Zetkin, Clara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1608468526
- Language: English
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Patriot Presidents: From George Washington to John Quincy Adams
$31.99 Add to cartA nuanced account of the early leaders who shaped the American presidency
The founding fathers of the United States created a unique institution, the presidency, as they were determined to authorize a- Author: Leuchtenburg, William E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0197598854
- Language: English
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The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global
$18.00 Add to cartFear of cancel culture has gripped the world, and it turns out to be an old fear in a new get-up.
In this incisive new work, Adrian Daub analyzes the global spread of cancel culture discourse as a mor
- Author: Daub, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1503640841
- Language: English
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Donald Trump v. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – With unparalleled reporting, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter chronicles the clash between a president and the officials of his own government who tried to … [more below]
- Author: Schmidt, Michael S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1984854682
- Language: English
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Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
$21.99 Add to cart“The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.” –H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion)
- Author: McMaster, H. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0060929081
- Language: English
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Democracy in America
$24.99 Read moreOriginally penned in the mid-eighteenth century by Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America remains one of the most penetrating and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals e
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Author: de Tocqueville, Alexis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: August 29 2006
- ISBN10: 0061127922
- Language: English
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Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution
$29.95 Add to cart“Walter Rodney was a pioneering scholar who provided new answers to old questions and posed new questions in relation to the study of Africa.”
A previously unpublished collec
-Professor Winston McGowan- Author: Rodney, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1839764112
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
$32.99 Add to cartThe most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the l… [more below]
- Author: Gerstle, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0197519644
- Language: English
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Bloodbath Nation
$24.00 Read moreAn intimate and powerful rumination on American gun violence by Paul Auster, one of our greatest living writers and “genuine American original” (The Boston Globe), in an unforgettable collaboration wi
- Author: Auster, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 080216045X
- Language: English
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Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back
$47.42 Add to cartWhat is the work ethic? Does it justify policies that promote the wealth and power of the One Percent at workers’ expense? Or does it advance policies that promote workers’ dignity and standing? Hijac… [more below]
- Series: Seeley Lectures
- Author: Anderson, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1009275437
- Language: English
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GuÃa Rápida de las 48 Leyes del Poder = The 48 Laws of Power
$19.95 Add to cartAmoral, inmisericorde, despiadado y, sobre todo, muy instructivo, el cl sico libro de Robert Greene Las 48 leyes del poder concentra tres mil a os de historia en un conjunto de m ximas claras y concis… [more below]
- Author: Greene, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 01 2020
- ISBN10: 6075278370
- Language: Spanish
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The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland
$34.95 Add to cartThis groundbreaking work deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the ‘Holy Land’ of Israel–and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it.
What is a homeland, and when does it become a nation- Author: Sand, Shlomo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 305
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1781680833
- Language: English
